The Petralona Cave Skull, found in Greece, was determined to be 286,000 years old after measuring the ratio between uranium ...

A new study has found that Neanderthals bred with our human ancestors some 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Brain growth slowed down about 300,000 years ago due to energetic and climate pressures, according to a study published in ...

This week, researchers pinned down the age of a complete Homo-genus skull found in Greece in 1960 to at least 286,000 years ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

A groundbreaking fossil study reveals that early human ancestors exhibited striking sexual dimorphism, reshaping our ...

A 5-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago is the earliest evidence of interbreeding between the two species.

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...